Shania Twain's Latest: The Hometown Blues

Center Devoted to Country Singer to Be Torn Down; White Suit's New Home

TIMMINS, Ontario—A few miles from a stretch of highway named Shania Twain Way, at the end of winding Shania Twain Drive, sits a building called the Shania Twain Centre.

But the complex has a date with the wrecking ball next month. That has everyone from die-hard fans of the Timmins-raised country-music star to the city council scrambling over how to wind down what was once this mining town's biggest bet to diversify its economy.